Jaded Times

President Bush signed into effect a bill proposing a fence covering 700 miles of the US/Mexico border today, in a daring attempt to prevent everyone but skaters and Shaun from crossing the border unpermitted. The cost? Well, like Iraq, the administration seems unconcerned with where the money will come from:

Its cost is not known, although a homeland security spending measure the president signed earlier this month makes a $1.2 billion down payment on the project.

The only positive result is that this fence will create new jobs for a short period of time. Hmm, I wonder how those jobs will be regulated, seeing as we’ve still done nothing to prevent the actual AMERICAN employers who are hiring illegal immigrants in the first place from doing so. Not that I personally think we have any sort of problem with illegal immigration, but logically the accountability would fall on the people paying the workers, wouldn’t it?

As for anyone who thinks this fence will improve security, it covers one third of the border between Mexico and the US, which should what? Dumb found terrorists who spend most of their time planning out their operations (unlike the US military)? I think they can plan for a car ride to the nearest edge…

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